Kevin M. Stack
About
Kevin M. Stack holds the Lee S. and Charles A. Speir Chair in Law at Vanderbilt Law School, where he also served as Associate Dean for Research. His legal scholarship focuses on administrative law, statutory interpretation, and separation of powers. His work has appeared numerous US law reviews, including the Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Cornell Law Review, and Vanderbilt Law Review, as well as in international journals including the Modern Law Review and the International Journal of Constitutional Law. He is co-author of a textbook, The Regulatory State (with his Vanderbilt Law colleagues Lisa Bressman and Ed Rubin) on statutory interpretation and administrative lawmaking now in its fourth edition. He has received with the ABA’s Annual Scholarship Award for the best published work in administrative law, the Vanderbilt Chancellor’s Award for Research, and the Levin’s Centers Award for Excellence in Oversight Research. Professor Stack is Public Member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, and serves as Chair of the ABA’s Administrative Law Fellowship Program. Professor Stack has received the Law School’s Hall-Hartman Award for Outstanding Teaching on multiple occasions; he was also selected by the Vanderbilt Law graduating class of 2021 as its commencement speaker.
Stack came to Vanderbilt from the faculty of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University, which he joined after practicing as an associate at Jenner & Block in Washington, D.C. Prior to practice, he served as a law clerk for Judge Kimba M. Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and for Judge A. Wallace Tashima of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Before earning his J.D. at Yale Law School, he received a master’s degree in philosophy at Oxford University supported by a Fulbright Scholarship.